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Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (27 January 1875 – 13 July 1942) was a Mexican journalist, feminist, professor, and activist. She was an author of radical feminist literature and contributed to leftist newspapers including El Diario del Hogar and El Hijo del Ahuizote.
Valentina Ramírez Avitia (14 February 1893 – 4 April 1979) was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera.She was known as "La Valentina" and "La leona de Norotal". [1] She fought against the Federales in the Mexican Revolution at a time when women were not allowed to join the army.
Margarita Neri was a Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution. [1] She was a Dutch-Maya Indian from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo who was one of the few female military leaders to achieve fame during the revolution.
La Mujer en la Revolución Mexicana. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 1961. Reséndez, Andrés (April 1995). "Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution". The Americas. 51 (4): 525– 553. doi: 10.2307/1007679. JSTOR 1007679. Ruiz-Alfaro, Sofia (2013).
María Arias Bernal, also known as María Pistolas (1884–1923), was a schoolteacher who was an agitator in the Mexican Revolution under Francisco I. Madero, president of Mexico 1911–1913, until his assassination in a counter-revolutionary coup by Victoriano Huerta.
Virginia Salinas de Carranza (September 20, 1861 – November 9, 1919) was the initial First Lady of Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. She was married to Venustiano Carranza , a major leader of the revolution and first constitutional President of Mexico from around 1917–1920.
The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". [ 9 ]
On the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution the Federal District Government carried out the rehabilitation and restoration of Republic Square, Monumento a la Revolución (Monument to the Revolution) and National Museum of the Revolution. The first crucial revolution during the 20th century was the Mexican Revolution. [6]